Sentences with phrase «striker lead the line»

With their Swedish centre forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic injured it is likely to be the young English striker leading the line at Old Trafford on Saturday, so is he the main danger man and does Wenger need to take special care to stop him hurting our title challenge once more?

Giroud is tied on three with Bale, Payet and Morata but the Spaniard's tournament is over and with the Arsenal striker leading the line for France who are now scoring freely I think he has a good chance of finishing on top.

My question to you @Midkemma how do we challenge for a title when the main man leading our attack has the same goal ratio as a striker leading the line for a team fighting for their very survival???

I don't understand why people are preaching the gospel of» converting» Alexis Sanchez to a full striker leading our line.

We all want an effective striker leading the line but what I fail to comprehend with Giroud is that despite each of his seasons with us being slightly better than the last, why it's impossible to comprehend that he can be an efficient scorer for us.

Arsenal football club has an inexperienced 21 yo striker leading the line....

The same could be said for having a world class striker leading the line.

Also, it is unlikely that Inter will be in the market for a new striker, given that they have such a young, capable striker leading the line.

Jose Mourinho has made clear Chelsea's heavy reliance on Diego Costa by admitting his team are «made to play» with the striker leading the line.

Not exact matches

I would personally prefer to have Walcott leading the line in the absence of Olivier Giroud, but only if he is in form and feeling confident and we all know that goals give strikers that edge.

(Yes I know we have Sanchez, but as last year proved he is not a striker, and shouldn't really be expected to be the main goal scorer especially when he is not leading the line)

Stop this bullsh!t your french striker wanting to face a team (favourite opponent), the guy is capable of leading arsenal's front line, get a striker asap.

Yes we have large squard bt not a best 11, though we can't have wc at evryposition, it is a team game, weakness to one is weaknes to all bt sincerely except Giroud, we do not have a striker that can succesfully lead our line.

Maybe he is, Maybe he's not but what is clear is that with Giroud leading the line as sole striker we are NOT ever gonna see a PL tiltle ever ever again.

goodness i can't believe it people will still defend him.You know something when Giroud misses many chances like at Monaco i did not criticize him even based on that you know why?its because he has always not been clinical.The only way a team can improve is by indentifying its problems and solving them.Arsenal has Giroud as the main cf and Welbeck as backup to him.Giroud has done well scoring some goals some too important but collectively he does more harm than good.Do not use moments to judge a player judge him based on content.Giroud does not excel in many games than he excels in games.As a main cf you need to be consistent.I see people here saying Giroud can not dribble he cant do this he cant do that but its a bit crazy to criticize him for that because every player has his own style.Giroud limitations as a player costs arsenal and will cost us a lot.Most importantly his poor finishing which has cost us several times.Not good enough.His style of play is ok for us but a striker who can take on players and run behind defences very well would make us very strong and also should be clinical.For Welbeck he needs to works on his finishing and composure by doing the basic things right.He rushes infront of goal too much.For now he is just above average.However he can excel if he works on improving.Giroud and Welbeck will always be a pain in arsenal's neck for most part.Some will call me stupid but hey at least i want to analyze the problem.People may support Giroud or Welbeck to lead the line next season but as the saying goes if you fool me once shame on you but if you fool me twice shame on me.Will you let Giroud and Welbeck fool you again?

either way I seriously suspect we will be linked with a large number of players and the only one we will see in an Arsenal shirt come august will be Granit We nger has NOT changed in anyway and has already stated that Giroud will lead the line next season which rules out Lewondowski, Aubamayang, Higauin and any real top signings and IF France win the euro (wich will be no real indication of anything much) Wenger will sing Giroud priases to the heavens and state that we have the top striker in europe.

Arsenal currently have Olivier Giroud, Danny Welbeck, Lucas Perez and Alexis Sanchez vying for a place up front, but we are still eagerly awaiting a top striker to come in and lead the line.

We can win things with G rude leading the line, but we really need another capable type of goal scoring striker to compete and deputize, I heard that Lacazette is very good and so young @ 23.

If peradventure Arsenal will sign a striker this summer, my preference is that striker should be versatile one who can efficiently operates from the wide - right wing and also can efficiently lead the lead line too for the Gunners.

The South American would fit into the Roberto Firmino bracket — a player who is capable of leading the line and also playing in the attacking trident behind the striker.

However, while Barnes has enjoyed what he's seen, he is convinced that Klopp needs to add an out - and - out striker to lead the line moving forward as he doesn't believe that the levels set by Salah, Mane and Firmino are sustainable.

Sell that donkey to Westham as soon as possible coz Arsenal won't win major trophies when the most slowest striker is leading the line.

I really do nt see any legs in any of these stories about any more transfers, The evidence is all there among all the smoke and mirrors, Look at the evidence, Wenger stated that Giroud would lead the line next season and as such we have have only seen any real movement towards buying a striker in the purchase of Asano who clearly is nothing more than a shirt selling move.

From having the likes of Henry, Bergkamp, Wiltord, Kanu as our array of strikers to now being content with Giroud leading the line alone for over 3 years!!!

There are doubts over Olivier Giroud against the top teams [Daily Telegraph], while Theo Walcott and Danny Welbeck have never played as a central striker on a regular basis and it remains to be seen whether either player could lead the line for potential title contenders.

What a failire he's become.He was bought as the man supposed to lead the line and send us to glory and now he becomes a so called super sub.I don't get it.France's leading striker is a super sub at Arsenal.Since he came here he's part of the reason why we've not been able to win the league.He's also part of the reason why Wenger remains hesitant in signing a world class striker since for some reason he still believes in him.He's really affected Arsenal a lot which I don't kbow if many have realized.At times playing with him is like playing with no striker at all.This inconsistencies won't help us at all going forward We have absolutely zero quality in striking department.

Regardless of peoles opinions on Vardy and his suitability with us he has scored more goals that our so called striker It will be interesting to see what happens over the Euro's as France are a very strong team and if Giroud is leading the line and they do well, it could prompt other sied to look at him in a different light Wenger as usual will sit on his hands until the last days of the window now he has brought on one player Forgey Mihkatarin we wont be getting himdespite the fact he likes us Wenger WONT like his price tag

Put in a $ 20 - 25M bid for either the Pole or German in midfield and possibly $ 40 - 50M for a Cavani / Lacazette type striker to lead the line.

The striker was left out of the starting lineup for both of the ties against Fiorentina, but Pochettino will surely want his main man leading the line rather than Nacer Chadli.

A BVB Dortmond's # 42m pounds price tag is not beyond what Arsenal can afford to pay to get top quality striker Auba to lead the line for the Gunners.

Maybe worse it will be Sanogo leading the line, I'm still waiting for the inevitable press conference where Wenger says we don't need any new strikers because we have Giroud, Sanogo, Akpom, Walcott and Welbeck to come back later in the season

Cavani, 31, looks ideal to lead the line for a Jose Mourinho side, sharing many characteristics with the likes of Didier Drogba and Zlatan Ibrahimovic — two of the finest central strikers to play under the Portuguese.

You wanted him to say «Giroud is rubbish I will get another super striker to lead the line next season».

And I also think Walcott should be leading the line barring any major striker signing, with Sanchez 2nd in line, and Giroud mostly used as a sub early in the second half to harass defenders when they get tired.

They are expected to stick with a 4 -5-1 formation, with Argentine striker Gonzalo Zarate leading the line at the Wals - Siezenheim Stadium.

How I wish we had a clinical striker like him leading the lines... Even if you have a porous midfield, it helps when you know your dangerman upfront wouldn't miss if given half a chance It makes things so much easier when you have a clinical striker

Blues manager Jose Mourinho has already confirmed in his pre-match press conference that Spanish striker Diego Costa will start tonight, with Zlatan Ibrahimovic set to lead the line for PSG meaning two of the most exciting forwards in Europe will be on show here.

Spoiler Alert people, we are not getting anyone in the front striker position OTHER than what we already have, there was a story in the star yestrday about the 250 million wenger is looking to spend on the likes of Marco Ruess ect ect and I really can not believe that after all these years the Prof will change his ways and spend all that money and evern if he was going to he needs to pull his finger out as all the top players are being strongly linked with other clubs, meanwhile we wait for the brat Vardy to make up his mind when we know he is highly unlikely to come to us another summer of dissapointment for us as wenger has already stated that Giroud will lead the line next season.

but when he first got to Dortmund - he wasn't even viewed as good enough to play as the central striker & lead the line - shifted out on the wing - much like Walcott for us.

I just hope for a mobile and technical striker to lead our line from this season on.

A loan deal for a striker would be good considering the fact that we are one injury for welbeck away from having to see Yaya Sanogo leading the line.

If I were in Ozil shoes, I wouldn't sign a new contract unless Arsenal sign a top class striker, I say it to Wenegr as simple as that... The guy want to win trophies which we will never do with Giroud leading the line...

* Simione likes mobile strikers... Thats why he's got Torres leading his line.

Don't understand your comment — Aguero is top, top quality but he rarely «leads the line» for neither club nor country and is played off a main striker.

The striker has shown promising quality when leading the line and looks to be the perfect fit for Arsene Wenger to turn into a top quality front man, if he can not find an already established experienced striker that is.

The ideal is that we bring a new striker that can hold up play and has some pace to lead our line and stick withe walcott on the wings or as a sub striker and giroud as second choice striker if walcott play on the wings

Giroud's an awesome player.I think he's decent striker, probably not world class and if other team members score their own share of goals then we'll be alright.Plus the boss thinks he good enough to lead the line....

I must confess, I since Thiery Henry said in an interview that he doesn't think Giround could lead the Arsenal front line to lift the title, I have been of the opinion that we get another striker (on that ground).

The striker is set to lead the line for his country this summer, and former Arsenal legend thinks he will play an important role for France.

I think Wenger knows that a world - class striker could be the difference this year and that it will be difficult with Giroud leading the line to win PL or CL.